This qualifies for more than an “OOPS!”
On Wednesday, a man drove a Bugatti Veyron into a lagoon in Texas after avoiding a low-flying pelican.
According to The Galveston County Daily News, the driver was checking out real estate in La Marque, Tex., when the pelican swooped into view:
The man jerked the wheel, dropped his cellphone and the car’s front tire left the frontage road and entered a muddy patch, which foiled his attempt to maneuver away from the lagoon…
The man was uninjured, physically, though after drowning the Veyron, which is priced at around $2 million, his ego might be a little damaged.
I’d be hard-pressed to feel sorry for someone dunking his $2million car in a salt-water lagoon. Distracted by a fracking pelican. And trying to pick up his cell phone.
This is precisely the sort of situation that falls into my own personal category of tragedies called:
“Gee, mister, that’s too bad.”
Cinaedh
November 12, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Anyone with children can tell you, “shit happens”.
Mr. Fusion
November 13, 2009 at 1:55 am
Wash happens…
Jägermeister
November 14, 2009 at 4:36 pm
This just makes me cry. I now hate all pelicans. And cell phones. And people with the money to purchase vehicles like this, but with no talent behind the wheel.
That poor car.
wok3
November 13, 2009 at 4:20 am